"John P. Looney" wrote:
> You can connect a UDMA66 drive to a UDMA66 connector, with a standard 40
> pin cable, but I reckon that the higher error ratio will force it back to
> UDMA33 at most.
UDMA66 cables have one broken wire - you can usually spot it as a small
section of wire absent in the middle of the cable. That allows drives to
detect what kind of cable they're working with. If they don't see a
broken wire they will assume it's a 40-way cable and will not go higher
than UDMA33. I would imagine the drives still allow the extended command
set to be used in that situation but I don't know.
Paul.
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